Aymar Esse, Director of Locarno Open Doors World Premiere ‘My Father’s Kora,’ Explores the Challenges of Queer Identity in Senegal

Per Variety, 'My Father's Kora'—a Benin-Switzerland-Germany co-production—has its world premiere this Friday at the Locarno Film Festival in the Open Doors section, a program showcasing African cinema since twenty twenty-five. The film follows an Afro-German trans man traveling to Dakar, Senegal, to repair his father's kora.

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